Hello Please spell check your emails and please try to write them in full sentences. English is not my mother tongue and it was somewhat hard to understand. See reply inline.
2009/8/23 mike obike <[email protected]>: > i presume i am writing to hte right people? > Yes and no. Most of the packages ubuntu gets from Debian although there are ubuntu modifications to the package debian revision number suggests that Ubuntu was not the first one to package it, we got it from Debian. > spm seems to thinel that the latest version of qtatalker is 0.32 > in fact it is now 0.36 > I presume that "spm" = "Synaptic Package Manager". To be precise Synaptic/apt show exactly which version is availables from the repositories you have set up on your local machine. According to this page [1] qtstalker had upstream version number 0.32 since hardy, there were 3 Debian uploads and 2 Debian "Non-maintainer-uploads" with currently single ubuntu "patch-upload" Based on this information it looks like this package is rotting in Debian. So I've looked at [2] which showed that maintainer Marco van Zwetselaar <[email protected]> made last upload to debian just before Christmas in 2005. Following from that I've looked at Debian Quality Assurance page for this package [3]. Which showed some promise. Maintainer Marco van Zwetselaar did an upload of update package to mentors.debian.net that means not a Debian Developer and hence seeking sponsorship. To further investigate this package I've looked at the only open bug [4] (#429827). From what it looks like there is dependency problem: /```` | Note that Qtstalker depends on TA-Lib which isn't in Debian yet. (My | ITP for TA-Lib expired after a year.) My packages for TA-Lib are at | mentors and my site as well [3,4]. \,,,,, > could you update spm so that the latesst package is installed > From upstream, user and developer prospective it is best to update this package in Debian. I would recommend emailing [email protected] cause it should reach interested people. Ubuntu is very close to Feature Freeze [5]. I would suggest you to try to cooperate with debian maintainers to upload updated package to Debian before December such that new version would be released in Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu "Karmic+1" (~10.04). > thanks mike > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtstalker/ Your welcome and I wish you best luck. [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=qtstalker [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=qtstalker [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/q/qtstalker.html [4] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429827 [5] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule -- With best regards Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima), Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
